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Archaeological Art for a Data-Driven #ArchInk

October 1, 2022 by Paulina Przystupa

On a dark blue banner in white reads "A Digital Data Story" followed by in light blue coloring reads "It’s All in the Wrist (Bones): Archaeological Data as Artistic Inspiration" under the dark blue bar is a thin light blue bar. Below that is a large pound (#) sign in light blue. This relates to the smaller pound (#) sign below that reads "This Data Story contains no images of human remains." Between the two tags centered is a piece of animal bone tinted blue digitally. Below that is a 0 to 10 bar measure indicating hte piece is 10cm in length

All in the Wrist is our first Creative Series Data Story. We hope you enjoy it!

Have you been itching to illustrate? Craving some cooking? Or daring to dance? Are you wondering how you could make these inclinations archaeological? Well, have we got some inspiration for you!

To alpha test our next data story, It’s All in the Wrist (Bones): Archaeological Data as Artistic Inspiration, we’ve got some data-driven archaeology prompts to encourage your next endeavor.

You can take a look at our full alpha-testing package here. This includes our prompt guide, with a handy-how to, some examples, and advice for working with social media. In addition, there’s a search tutorial. As sometimes, one word isn’t enough to get those rocks…knapping.

Regardless! We (aka the Data Literacy Program team via @opencontext on Twitter) will be posting one word from our prompt list every day this October as a #DataDriven version of #ArchInk. While the name suggests a focus on inking, one particular illustrative style, we’re encouraging folks to use whatever medium makes their minds light up with joy. 

However, if you’re not familiar with #ArchInk, search the tag on your favorite social media platform and see what comes up. Alternatively, check out our post explaining Artober and ArchInk. This should hopefully get you interested in the game we’ve got going on. If you still have questions, please reach out @opencontext or via e-mail at datastories@opencontext.org with questions.

In dark blue outline, there is an image similar to a spiral bound note book. On the left hand side is a cartoon pencil with the words "PROMPT LIST #" written in light blue within the dark blue outlined pencil. On the ledge in black reads a list of prompt words. These are: 1. BONE 2. DIVINATION 3. PAST 4. dynasty  5. WRITTEN 6. LUCKY7. EMOTIONS	8. POROUS	9. INSCRIPTION	10. RELIGIOUS	11. CRACK	12. TECHNOLOGY	13. SCRAPER	14. OBJECTIVITY	15. AUSPICIOUS	16. SCAPULA	17. GOAT	18. SOUND	19. RITUAL	20.FUTURE	21. TREATMENT in the first column. Followed by: 22. HOUSEHOLD	23. DRILL	24. EARLIEST	25. FIRE	26. DIVINER	27. HOLLOW	28. PRESENT	29. TRASH PIT	30. LATEST	31. SACRED in the second column.

For a quick summary, here’s our full prompt list for the month!

All in the Wrist is our first Data Story within our Creative Series. All Data Stories in the Creative Series aim to cultivate data literacy by inspiring creativity using archaeological data. For All in the Wrist, we hope to cultivate data literacy using inspiration drawn from one specific open data project. 

First, this data story encourages you to read data (in the literacy sense) to absorb the prompt and use it to find more information on Open Context. Then, you practice working with the data by turning the prompt into something new. At the end of the month, you can analyze what you’ve created to say something new about the data set that inspired 31 days of data literacy skills. You can even argue something about the data set based on what you’ve made.

In addition, if you fall behind or don’t see this guide until partway through the month, no problem! We didn’t write this  inspiration guide as a set of rigid rules. It’s one way to work with data. So pick up wherever you’d like or wherever you can.

Lastly, if you choose to travel this thematic month with us, let us know what you think! You can @ us on Twitter or e-mail us directly. Or if you’re interested us contacting you for a follow up survey let us know. We want to make resources that encourage your data literacy journey and if some stuff just doesn’t work, we want to know! 

With that, we hope you enjoy embarking on this archaeological adventure with us this #ArchInk!

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